Thursday, November 10, 2016

Rivers were roads and steam was king: The Way We Worked

From the Maitland Mercury article:
On Boxing morning, 1912, the steamboat Guthrey, with about 400 people on board, left Newcastle to travel up the Paterson River to the Paterson township. But at a bend in the river, about 400 metres from Dunmore Bridge, the boat struck a rock and stuck fast...

New book, The Way We Worked, by journalist Greg Ray and his wife, Sylvia.

The book is available from the Maitland Mercury office at 6/555 High Street, Maitland, theherald.com.au online bookstore and from participating newsagents and booksellers.